Convention: Siege of Augusta, 2023

Siege of Augusta occured this past weekend - a nice "medium" size convention, the type I generally prefer.  If I had to guess I'd think some 200-250 people attended over the weekend.

For some reason I decided to host games non-stop from Friday at noon through Saturday at midnight.  I brought no less than three of my own games, and ran them in large blocks, just firing up games as players showed up.

The curse of "I don't like technology" struck...when I realized I had snapped only a handful of pictures of other peoples' games before putting my phone away for the whole weekend.  I just don't like whipping out my phone...but I should have!

Fortunately I was able to scrounge pictures from other attendees on the Facebook page.

One of several rounds of Caverns, Crypts, & Catacombs.

The party considers its next move.

The small demo-dungeon.

Running Scrapheap on my new junk town table!

Intrepid adventurers encounter a spectre.

The junk town I set up for demo-ing Scrapheap.

Another shot of Caverns, Cryptes, & Catacombs.

The town for Shoot N' Skeaddle.

Another shot of Drake's Branch, my old west town.

A picture from my buddy's "rescue peasants" fantasy game he custom designed for the convention.

More of main street.

A Halfling struggling to catch up with his partners.

Another few shots of the Scrapheap table.

A post-apocalyptic game that I didn't decipher.

An attractive Civil War game.

I believe this was Franco-Prussian war.

One of the other two Old West games we had running on Friday.

An attractive ancients "trireme" era naval game.
 

Oldhammer: Blood Angel Space Marine Scouts

Struggled to get a good picture of these guys for some reason, but a squad of nice old metals, recovered from eBay minis.

Slightly...rough when picked up off eBay.

Stripped, cleaned, re-based, repainted.

Who wants to be a Slumtown Millionaire? Siege of Augusta this weekend!

Sorry for the poor pictures, but I just completed painting up some MDF slumtown stuff, so I'll have an additional "biome" or setting for my Scrapheap games.

TT Combat slum stack stuff.

In addition, I'll be running several of my games at Siege of Augusta this upcoming weekend.  I'll be running Shoot  N" Skedaddle and Scrapheap on Friday, and I'm planning Caverns, Crypts, & Catacombs and Scrapheap on Saturday.  Swing by and say hello - maybe get a playtest in with me.

Starting off 2023 strong.

For 2022, here are my hobby results:

2022 Models Painted: 214*

*For the purposes of counting models, a base of 15mm miniatures is treated as a single model (whereas a 15mm tank is considered one model).  Sadly I don't count terrain which I built/painted a ton of for the year!

Starting for 2023, we're already on a roll.  My normal goal each year is simple and attainable: 10 miniatures per month, or 120 for the year.

I completed four Reaper Worms for use as quasi-Tremors 'Graboids' for playing some Scrapheap.  Sadly they're Bones Black or basic Bones and the primer colour is still tacky a few days after application...a frustration I've experienced with a handful of other Bones miniatures.  It's not deal-breaking as they are simple, quickly painted and just scenario use models....but nonplussed regardless.

 

 

These models actually have pinkish inner maws with teeth, but I realized they don't show in the pictures.  These are each mounted on 50mm bases, and they stand 60-65mm in height --- so quite large!

Another start for 2023, wrapping up some 15mm T-34's from Flames of War (for use with Battlegroup).  Unlike 98% of Soviet players, I'm not a huge fan of the T-34...and the ones I do like are the shorter barrely 76.2mm models.  However, T-34/85s are an absolute staple of mid to late war Soviet forces, so I put together some remaining T-34's for use.  I imagine I'm probably done with T-34's for quite some time - having roughly 13-15 of them on hand.